This short course surveys all the major topics covered in a full semester MBA level finance course, but with a more intuitive approach on a very high conceptual level. The goal here is give you a roadmap and framework for how financial professional make decisions.
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Finance for Non-Finance Professionals
Rice UniversityAbout this Course
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- Financial Accounting
- Capital Budgeting
- Corporate Finance
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Course Overview and Basic Principles of Financial Valuation Discounting
How to Spend Money (Capital Budgeting tools)
Measuring Cash Creation and Flow
How Much Does Money Cost? Evaluating the Cost of Capital
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- 5 stars82.35%
- 4 stars15.69%
- 3 stars1.17%
- 2 stars0.32%
- 1 star0.44%
TOP REVIEWS FROM FINANCE FOR NON-FINANCE PROFESSIONALS
Totally enjoyable! Big thank you to Prof. James Weston, his team and Coursera for making this course available to al of us,the curious learnes wherever we may be on the Globe!
James is a very passionate and communicative lecturer. I really love the way he presents the materials because it makes all the materials are easily digested and understood. Two thumbs up!!
Very insightful and refreshed the concepts I learned in a much better way! Professor was extremely good at conveying the course in the best way possible to comprehend complex topics!
If you are an absolute noob in finance as I am, this course is just for you..Just that sometimes you would have to google a bit for a few terms .... Brilliant work by Rice Uni....
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